Initiatives to revise the Romanian Constitution of 2019. Brief presentation of the Decisions of the Constitutional Court

Abstract

The study presents the case law of the Constitutional Court in the matter of Romanian Constitutional revision with reference to the legislative proposals examined by the court of constitutional jurisdiction during 2019. We notice a preoccupation of the title holders of the right of legislative initiative in the field of combating corruption through various means. Thus, the authors of the legislative proposals wanted to regulate, at constitutional level, integrity conditions that would apply: to the candidates to be elected in the local public administration bodies, in the Chamber of Deputies, in the Senate and in the position of President of Romania and limit the possibility of regulating/granting collective amnesty and pardon and individual pardon for acts of corruption. At the same time, the purpose of initiating these legislative proposals concerns imposing a limit to regulations by means of emergency ordinances in the field of crimes, punishments and the regime of their enforcement.